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By: aviva

aviva — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:48:53 +0000

Or you could screw all this ridiculous nonsense, pre-empt further frustration and complaining and just go Mac. You’ll never go back, and you’ll never be sorry…. and you’d be fine to run what you need to with emulation software.
Craig came home with his brand new Dell laptop he got for work, which has Vista on it. Damn thing weighs 20 lbs and …well…. Vista. Gag. It’s trying way to hard to be OSX. M$ blows.

By: MAS

MAS — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:19:54 +0000

My XP 64 bit (HULK) is no longer under warranty and was hand built by a place in South Orange County. When I lived in North County San Diego, I went up there twice for service. That is no longer an option. I have no backup computer. In many ways in ended up being too big and too loud for me.

I’m not expecting great things from my new VISTA machine. I just need stability and VISTA is more stable than XP64 or else there would be rioting in the streets.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:13:48 +0000

If you aren’t happy with XP 64 bit, I am guessing you’ll hate Vista. We have a Vista Machine at work and it is unbelievably annoying. So long as you are throwing in the towel, you may consider running OS X on a new Apple product. For those moments when you absolutely must have access to Windows, virtualization is your answer. My experience is that XP runs better for me in a virtualized environment on my MacBook and iMac than it ever did on my Dell–I’d love to try it out on a MacPro . OS X is already 64 bit and it works wonderfully well.

By: MAS

MAS — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:52:32 +0000

I’m done resisting M$ Vista. I held out for over a year. Carry on the battle without me.

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:48:18 +0000

Vista is the new Windows ME. I’d stick to XP 32 bit until Windows 7. If it’s not too late, make sure you have downgrade rights to XP or a Dell OEM XP disk laying around.

I’ve had Vista on work desktop for over a year. I curse it daily.

Windows 64 bit anything is a joke. No one writes drivers and 95% of the applications are 32 bit. Open task manager, see those tasks that are *32. Yeah, those are 32 bit. Even on Server 64 bit, over half of the MSFT processes are still 32 bit.